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Mechanism of Method Employment (view source)
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The same idea has been expressed around the same time by [[Ernan McMullin]]. In his account of the transition from the Aristotelian Medieval method to the hypothetico-deductive method in the early 18th century, McMullin shows that the employment of the hypothetico-deductivism was a result of accepting that the world is more complex than it appears in our observations.[[CiteRef::McMullin (1988)|pp. 32-34]]
There have been many other attempts at explaining how methods of theory evaluation come to be employed by a community(e.g. Consider, for instance the reconstructions of Plato’s method performed by [[David Lindberg,]][[CiteRef::Lindberg (2007)|pp. 37-38]], ).
[[Barry Barnes]], [[David Bloor]], [[Bruno Latour]], [[Steve Woolgar]] and other have suggested that methods of science are determined to a large degree by the underlying sociocultural factors.[[CiteRef::Latour and Woolgar (1979)]][[CiteRef::Barnes, Bloor, and Henry (1996)]]
